The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-04-23
WEST AND SOUTH.

light ayowcd socialists are members OF
a committee OF eleven selected Sunday by
the united labor party of Chicago TO re
organize the concern. A resolution TO
forbid the sale of liquors at picnics and
the holding of meetings in saloons was
tabled, by n vote OF 81 20 81.
Snow and rain fell in Kansas, Nebraska
aud Western Missouri, on the 18th.
A resolution has been adopted by the
Knights OF Labor in ST. Louis, that in
their procession on May LIST, no red flags
shall be carried.
The body of Frederick Wirth, who has
been missing from his home in Chicago
for month or more. was found in the
Chicago river on Monday.
L. M. Fonda, Superintendent of the
Georgia Central Railroad, was accidentally
shot and killed, Sunday, while on an ex-
cursion near Savannah, Ga.
Advices from Mexico say that the fol-
lowing American investment in Mexican
real estate closed recently: A syndicate
OF Chicago Capitalists and United States
army officers has purchased tract of
100000 acres in Coahuila, Durango and
chihuahua. The tract is traversed by the
Mexican Central and international roads.
or this tract 100000 acres is the finest
cotton land in the country.
The explosion OF barrel OF varnish re-
suited in a fire, which destroyed the build
ing at Milwaukee occupied by the Charles
Baumbach Company, wholesale druggists.
The total loss is about $4,000, with in
surance Of $4,000.
The business portion OF Ainsworth Ia ,
was swept away by fire, causing a loss of
between $4,000 and $4,000.
Williams Hotel, at Montesano Springs,
Mo, was destroyed by an incendiary fire.
Loss, $4,000.
The business portion of Trempealeau,
Wis, was swept away by fire.
The business portion OF GAINESVILLE;
Mimi, was almost destroyed by fire, Tues
day night, twenty-oho buildings beng
burned.
ID. @. Curry q Cos extensive planning
mill at Wooster, o., was destroyed by fire.
Loss $4,000.
Great prairie fires in Norton and Ora
ham counties, Kansas, devastated much OF
the country, and besides destroying prop
erty, n score of lives are said 90 have been
lost. Prairie fires with loss OF life are also
reported from Dakota
John j. McGrath's Wholesale wall paper
and interior decorating establishments
106 20 1I2 Wabash avenue, Chicago. was
destroyed by fire. Loss 100000. No i'm
surance. Two firemen were killed.
Tho ST. Augustine Hotel, Edwards
House, the old cathedral, vcdder's
Museum, the court house, Welter's Hotel,
and number OF smaller buildings at ST.
Augustine, Fla, were destroyed by fire.
The loss IL placed at $4,000, with very
small insurance.
large water tank nj Palatine, H., ON
tho Chicago a Northwestern Railroad
burst Sunday afternoon, killing five men
and seriously injuring four others. Two
freight trains colided near the tank in
the morning. tearing up the ground and
loosening It's supports, which caused the
subsequent accident
A stranger attempted 10 cross the I'LL
nois Central's tracks 40 the foot OF Van
Buren, street in Chicago on Friday morn
ing In front of an approaching engine
lie stumbled md fell, and his body was
torn TO pieces.
Eight OF ten men were crushed TO death
in deep cut on the Midland Railroad near
Buena Vista, Col, by a land slide.
Near MiIlbank, Kan. an entire family
father, mother. and -four chiIdren-per-
iahed In prairie fre.
Drought in Wabash county, Indiana, is
killing the wheat plant, and the meadows
are reported brown and bare.
collision on the cincinnati and Mus